Senior course readiness criteria and pre-requisite
Nil
What is the course about?
Essential English develops and refines students’ understanding of language, literature and literacy to enable them to interact confidently and effectively with others in everyday, community and social contexts.
What will students learn?
In studying Essential English, students will learn about:
- language that works
- texts and human experiences
- language that influences
- representations and popular culture texts.
What skills will I learn through Essential English?
- use patterns and conventions of genres to suit particular purposes and audiences
- use appropriate roles and relationships with audiences
- construct and explain representations of identities, places, events and concepts
- make use of and explain opinions and/or ideas in texts, according to purpose.
- explain how language features and text structures shape meaning and invite particular responses
- explain how language features and text structures shape meaning and invite particular
- sequence subject matter and use mode-appropriate cohesive devices to construct coherent texts.
- make language choices according to register informed by purpose, audience and context.
- use mode-appropriate language features to achieve particular purposes across modes.
Course Content
Unit
| Unit Description
|
Year 10
Sem 2
| Unit 1- Novel Study
- Creating imaginative textsi
| Unit 2- Texts and human experiences
- Responding to reflective and nonfiction texts that explore human experiences
|
Year 11
| Unit 1 Language that works - Responding to a variety of texts used in and developed for a work context
| Unit 2 Texts and human experiences - Responding to reflective and nonfiction texts that explore human experiences
|
Year 12
| Unit 3 Language that influences - Creating and shaping perspectives on community, local and global issues in texts
- Responding to texts that seek to influence audiences
| Unit 4 Representations and popular culture texts - Responding to popular culture texts
- Creating representations of Australian identifies, places, events, and concepts
|
How will students be assessed?
Students will complete the following assessments:
- extended response — spoken response
- common internal assessment
- extended response — multimodal response
- extended response — written response.
Subject summary
Subject type
| Assessment
| QCE credits
| Contributes to ATAR
|
Applied
| Internal assessment (100%)
| Up to 4
| Only 1 may contribute when combined with 4 General subjects
|
*QCAA: Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority – www.qcaa.qld.edu.au